Place:The City of Brussels, Brabant, Belgium

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NameThe City of Brussels
Alt namesBruxelles-Villesource: Wikipedia
Stad Brusselsource: Wikipedia
Ville de Bruxellessource: Wikipedia
TypeMunicipality
Coordinates50.85°N 4.35°E
Located inBrabant, Belgium
Also located inBrussels-Capital Region, Belgium    


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The City of Brussels ( or alternatively Bruxelles-Ville ; or Brussel-Stad) is the largest municipality and historical centre of the Brussels-Capital Region, as well as the capital of Belgium. The City of Brussels is also the administrative centre of the European Union, as it hosts a number of principal EU institutions in its European Quarter.

Besides the central historic town located within the Pentagon, the City of Brussels covers some of the city's immediate outskirts within the greater Brussels-Capital Region, namely Haren, Laeken, and Neder-Over-Heembeek to the north, as well as the Avenue Louise/Louizalaan and the Bois de la Cambre/Ter Kamerenbos park to the south-east, where it borders municipalities in Flanders.

, the City of Brussels had a total population of 176,545. The total area is which gives a population density of . As of 2007, there were approximately 50,000 registered non-Belgians in the City of Brussels. In common with all of Brussels' municipalities, it is legally bilingual (French–Dutch).

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